by Lucas Seastrom | Jan 14, 2025 | Awards, San Francisco News
ILM teams from around the world earn recognition for projects as diverse as Wicked, Gladiator II, Ultraman: Rising, Deadpool & Wolverine, and What If…? – An Immersive Story. Today, the Visual Effects Society announced their nominations for the 23rd Annual VES...
by Lucas Seastrom | Dec 20, 2024 | San Francisco News
The visual effects supervisor talks Cassandra Nova, Gambit, and more. By Dan Brooks (Credit: Disney) In a surprise twist midway through Deadpool & Wolverine, our titular protagonists are marooned in the Void: a Mad Max-like wasteland of desert and forgotten...
by Lucas Seastrom | Nov 15, 2024 | San Francisco News, Vision & Craft
Heads still roll 25 years later in the Tim Burton classic Sleepy Hollow (1999). Revisit all of the eerie magic behind Industrial Light & Magic’s work that brought Washington Irving’s folktale to life and reintroduced audiences to one of cinema’s greatest on-screen...
by Lucas Seastrom | Nov 8, 2024 | San Francisco News, Vision & Craft
After 38 years, the veteran effects artist is retiring. By Lucas O. Seastrom First opening in 1987, the original Star Tours attraction at Disneyland included what was the most complex optical composite created at Industrial Light & Magic up to that time. A “view”...
by Lucas Seastrom | Oct 31, 2024 | San Francisco News, Uncategorized, Vision & Craft
Exploring the technical innovations and behind-the-scenes stories that brought Slimer to life in Ghostbusters 2, reaching new heights in animatronics and practical effects at Industrial Light & Magic. By Jamie Benning The original Slimer head on display at...
